Word: lax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comparative wealth, the typical delegate can hardly be accused of buying his convention seat. To be sure, the nation's political-finance reporting laws are notoriously lax. But at least on the record, the median contribution by 1964 delegates of either party to their state organizations was under $240 a year; less than 30% gave as much as $500. What really marks the typical delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether...
From the start, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's lax grip on leadership of the Poor People's Campaign has been steadily slipping away. Last week his hold relaxed to the point of paralysis. While Resurrection City afforded Washington an unseemly display of backbiting and verbal pyromania, the protest movement's leaders purged the man who, above all, might have given their faltering cause realistic direction...
Another group of seniors plan to feed Ex-lax to 500 pigeons and point them at the commencement crowd. "We got the idea from [Alfred] Hitchock's The Birds," said one senior, who asked that his name be withheld...
Lacrosse has been around for at least 200 years, and intercollegiate lacrosse began over 90 years ago, And unlike the present time when lax champion teams come from either New York or Maryland, the first recognized college champ was, believe it or not sports fans, Harvard...
...himself to avoid greeting passersby. He admits to a great "mania to convince everybody about everything," and many of his outspoken opinions are less than gracious. His hottest public feud is with gifted Opera Conductor Karl Böhm, who, he thinks, has an "impossible" technique and is too lax with singers. Partly because of these traits, partly because of the didacticism of his approach, Swarowsky has never made great headway as a practicing conductor. It is only when he conducts his classes-scherzo, andante, furioso and rondo-that his true mastery appears...